PART A: Read the following excerpt from the passage. Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land,
Drawing no dividend from time's to-morrows.
What does the word dividend mean in the context of the sentence?
O A. The poem uses "dividend" to refer to payment from the military.
B. The poem uses "dividend to refer to the soldier's anticipated military honors.
O C. The poem uses "dividend" sarcastically to refer to the traumatic experiences of war.
D. The poem uses "dividend" figuratively to refer to the threat of death that will prevent them from
living another day

D. The poem uses “dividend” figuratively to refer to the threat of death that will prevent them from living another day.

Explanation:

the narrator is a first person, participant one, who describes in the simple past tense important and difficult events in his earlier life. he also provides temporal markers as the month (january) and the time (12: 30 pm). finally the account of his experience is very detailed, to the extent that a participant narrator would talk the same way about his experiences. a good example of such detail is the mention of the “bovril ration” which historically was a native american food adopted by european explorers in arctic and antarctic regions due to its high level of calories.